This Day in History &mdash; February 23

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African Union chief condemns US police killing of George Floyd

The head of the African Union Commission on Friday condemned the killing by police of an unarmed black man in the US state of Minnesota which has sparked protests across the

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Rep. Waters Introduces Bill to Protect Medicare Patients with Diabetes during COVID-19

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), the Chair of the House Financial Services Committee and a member of the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, introduced the Affordable Insulin for the COVID-19 Emergency Act

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

ICC allows Ivory Coast ex-president Gbagbo to leave Belgium

Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo can leave Belgium under certain conditions, the International Criminal Court said on Thursday, following his acquittal last year over post-election violence that killed 3 000

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Protests Against Police Violence Rage Across The Country After George Floyd’s ‘Murder’

Source: MARK RALSTON / Getty

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Source: NewsOne

Task force pushes Gov’t to reopen borders

THE DR Nigel Clarke-chaired COVID-19 Economic Recovery Taskforce has recommended that the Government relax recently implemented border closure measures to kick-start the process of improving the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Suffragist Mary Church Terrell: ‘I Am African American’

When there's any mention of the pivotal role Black women played in the suffrage movement, Mary Church Terrell is often among the first names

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Source: The Washington Informer

‘It was thirst that killed him’ - Family cries foul over alleged neglect of cancer patient at Cornwall Regional Hospital

Martin, who lived in Cornwall Courts at the time of his death, had gone to the hospital for cancer treatment, only to die after reportedly being neglected by the medical staff over several days, his family is

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Sunday Brew — May 31, 2020

If information which surfaced over last weekend that there could have been manipulation of Leon Bailey to openly criticise the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is true, then it would be most

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Hands-only CPR can save someone you love

Even in the time of COVID-19, household members may be the lowest-risk providers of CPR at home because they have likely already been exposed, if in fact the cardiac-arrest victim has

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Councilmember Helena Moreno Announces $22M of Direct Entergy Bill Assistance for New Orleanians Facing Job Loss

NEW ORLEANS- On (May 21, 2020) Council Utilities Chair Helena Moreno announced she and her colleagues will be directing Entergy New Orleans to provide $22M of Direct Bill Assistance to residential

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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper

Britain pushing US to form 5G club of nations to cut out Huawei

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain said Friday it was pushing the United States to form a club of 10 nations that could develop its own 5G technology and reduce dependence on China's controversial telecoms giant

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Fastjet to assist in repatriation of Zim, SA nationals

LOW-COST airline, Fastjet Zimbabwe on Thursday announced it was releasing an aircraft for the repatriation of Zimbabwean and South African nationals seeking to go back home following the imposition of lockdown orders by the two

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

‘We’re sick of it’: Anger over police killings shatters US; protests reach Europe

Tens of thousands of people marched peacefully to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck until he stopped

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Rwanda court sentences ex-mayor to life for role in genocide

Rwanda's High Court on Thursday sentenced a former mayor to life in prison for his role in the country's 1994 genocide, which included leading attacks that resulted in the deaths of around 25 000 ethnic Tutsis in his

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Drumming Legend Jimmy Cobb Passes Away At 91

Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Rwandans will want Félicien Kabuga tried at home. Why this won’t happen

In 1997, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – an international court established by the UN in 1994 to judge people responsible for the genocide – indicted Kabuga for his

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Tuskegee Airmen Nurse Second Lt. Irma “Pete” Cameron Dryden Celebrates 100th Birthday

Second Lt. Irma “Pete” Cameron Dryden—the only living nurse who provided care for the military unit—recently celebrated her 100th birthday, 11 Alive

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Source: NewsOne

Gear Up for Free Fishing Day in Texas June 6

The first Saturday in June each year is designated as Free Fishing Day in the state of

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Black and Blue Don’t Match: Police Officers Kill Another African American

African Americans hadn’t stopped grieving over the assassination of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia when a video surfaced out of Minnesota, showing a police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a subdued George

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

The Loss of a Big Brother

Keith Wade sat with some of the most powerful and influential figures every day, but he always made time for the people that many of the most powerful and influential people don’t make time

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

M. Lisa Bowie-Moon, 56, Skyline Graduate Passes With No Regrets for Her Life | Post News Group

Lisa met her future husband, Michael A. Bowie on July

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Source: Post News Group | PNG

Congresswoman Kelly Announces $11.3 Million in Federal Grants for Community Health Centers | The Crusader Newspaper Group

It is our hometown health centers that many people rely on for preventive services, the treatment of chronic health conditions and now, they are on the frontline of combating a deadly

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Jamaican doctor defends herbal medicine use

And we estimate that 80 per cent of the rest world of the world still use some form of traditional herbal treatment,” Dr Gordon told the Jamaica Observer in an extended interview last

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Who’s Who in Black Atlanta celebrates 2020 Clark Atlanta University graduates [Video]

Although countless 2020 class of “perfect vision” commencement statuses nationwide are still uncertain, graduates at Clark Atlanta University received a virtual celebration that lifted many spirits at home during

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Walk good, Shahine

THE woman who changed the tide of losses for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) with an upset in a People's National Party (PNP) stronghold in St Ann North Eastern in 2001, Shahine Robinson, died at her family home in Claremont, St Ann, around midday yesterday, after a long battle with lung

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

We Don’t Fully Understand How Deadly the Coronavirus Has Been For Black Americans

While black people make up only about 13% of the United States’ population according to the U.S. Census Bureau, they account for 22% of COVID-19 deaths so far, according to the COVID Tracking Project (white people, who make up 77% of the U.S. population, account for only 47% of

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Source: TIME

Carnage looms in Chamisa camp

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s bid to bar the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T from further recalling his legislators from Parliament hit a brickwall yesterday after High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi ruled that the youthful opposition leader was improperly before the courts as his party was

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Healthy reality check: What money cannot do

COVID-19, having killed so many family members, has driven home the reality to never put material structure over

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Fresh jihadist violence hits northern Mozambique

Islamist militants terrorising remote communities in Mozambique's Muslim-majority north mounted a fresh attack on Thursday, police sources said, striking Macomia district in an early morning

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Source: https://www.news24.com

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